Anxiety: ALL ... DAY ... LONG (Episode 013)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What if I'm anxious all day long?
This is a question we get asked almost daily. This week on Disordered let's take a look at being anxious all day long. In this episode, we'll address misconceptions about anxiety that hangs around all day long. We'll also share our own experiences with persistent anxiety. Finally, we get into a discussion about accidentally fueling the cycle of all-day anxiety and why trying to fix it is generally a bad plan. Grab a coffee or tea and join us!
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| 0:00.0 | Anxiety all day long. Can you relate? |
| 0:05.0 | Most people with some form of disorder and anxiety are anxious all day long. |
| 0:10.0 | And I find that when people have anxiety all day long, it's because they find it difficult to not check in on it. |
| 0:17.0 | Compulsively check, to see if it's there, has it gone yet? |
| 0:20.0 | Simmering or close to boiling over or just wound up, tense, tight, like I'm about to explode. |
| 0:26.6 | It would start off and present itself as morning dread. |
| 0:29.6 | In the middle of the day, it would be like a simmering unease. |
| 0:32.6 | And in the evening it would feel like a tired guilt. |
| 0:35.6 | It would morph and change. |
| 0:38.0 | It will become a thing that you're not solving this. |
| 0:41.7 | Try harder. |
| 0:43.3 | I'd like to try and fix this. |
| 0:44.3 | No, you don't. |
| 0:45.2 | What happens if you don't fix it? |
| 0:47.0 | What else can you do instead of fixing it? |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 13, unlucky for some, particularly if you've got anxiety that lasts all day long. |
| 1:02.8 | That is the title of today's episodes. My name is Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety Josh, on social media. |
| 1:10.6 | And I'm a psychotherapist who specializes in anxiety, and I'm based in Manchester in the UK. And I am Drew Linzalata. I am coming to you from New York, Long Island, to be specific. I am a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling and a therapist in training, and you will find me as the anxious truth on social media i am the lucky |
| 1:27.9 | co-host of disorder welcome everybody lucky 13 yeah well before we start i wanted to share my own |
| 1:34.8 | did it anyway let's do it you know make it about me 100% everyone else on it does anyway uh yeah |
| 1:42.6 | i did it anyway um i was uh best man my uh |
| 1:46.4 | friend's wedding um over the weekend and I was petrified about my speech quite a spicy |
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